Stop Doing Boring Work Yourself…

TL;DR

Wade Foster (Zapier CEO) demonstrates AI workflows that save 20–30 hours per week: an instant dossier creator using Claude + MCP + HubSpot + ZoomInfo, a company brief generator built with Zapier Interfaces, ChatGPT for analyzing strategy memos with structured warm-up questions, and Zapier Agents that automate email drafting.

Key insights

• MCP (Model Context Protocol) is a new layer that allows AI agents to find and use API endpoints from different tools — analogous to APIs for SaaS but designed for agent-driven workflows.
• The “be 100x more specific” prompt hack (stolen from Hillary at Whoop) dramatically improves AI output from generic to nitty-gritty details.
• Meta-prompting: instead of asking the model directly, tell it the problem and then ask “Now write the prompt for me.”